Hacker News: siddbudd

New comment by siddbudd in "Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud"

siddbudd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:25:08 +0000

even Anthropic messed up LLM in a Chrome extension, not sure I would want this in my browser.

New comment by siddbudd in "Getting Claude to QA its own work"

siddbudd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:50:10 +0000

might be just me, feels too much like an ad for Skyvern

New comment by siddbudd in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

siddbudd — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:31:03 +0000

ah, Eastern Europe is a homogeneous slop, good to know. The 25th is only celebrated as a national holiday in like 90% of Eastern European countries. Russia and Serbia celebrate it on January 7th instead, and even that is only due to their use of the old Julian calendar. But sure, normal day in a very narrow and obscure definition of Eastern Europe.

New comment by siddbudd in "Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School"

siddbudd — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:16:55 +0000

dark reader (add-on) fixes both the scrollbar and the general color scheme

New comment by siddbudd in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

siddbudd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:48:38 +0000

Wired advertises this as "Ultra-Fast Translation"[^1]. A bit weird coming from a tech magazine. I hope it's just a "typo".

[^1]: https://www.wired.com/story/mistral-voxtral-real-time-ai-tra...

New comment by siddbudd in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

siddbudd — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:54:20 +0000

I loved the article, the translation is pretty good, too. Can you share a link to the full Chinese text with me, please? My wife is also from the Gobi desert and I think she would love to read the original version.

edit: I just found 我在404长大 [1] on douban, it seems the be the original version

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1: https://www.douban.com/note/858264779/

New comment by siddbudd in "Show HN: Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer"

siddbudd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:16:51 +0000

I tried to open the link in 2 browsers, both times the step "Establishing connection" resulted in "Dashboard Load Failed Reset operation timed out after 60 seconds"

New comment by siddbudd in "How to create an OS from scratch"

siddbudd — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:31:00 +0000

in English: https://download.oldlinux.org/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf

New comment by siddbudd in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game"

siddbudd — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:13:01 +0000

perfectly acceptable behavior for a stage magician, maybe less for Gandalf

New comment by siddbudd in "Europe has more heat deaths per year than the United States loses to gun deaths"

siddbudd — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:08:25 +0000

the source is talking about deaths per 100K population. Still an utterly ridiculous comparison.

New comment by siddbudd in "A unique sound alleviates motion sickness"

siddbudd — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:15:19 +0000

The participating mice also wanted to be nice and lied to the scientists, as they kept them well fed.

New comment by siddbudd in "A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card (2019)"

siddbudd — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:53:46 +0000

yes, copy the code: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3... paste in either: https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/ or: https://goqr.me/

New comment by siddbudd in "Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards"

siddbudd — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:02:34 +0000

For all you people who have used Anki or other SRS for many years: how do you get over the problem of being bored by it? Or does that not happen to you?

Though I have not used Anki, I used a similar SRS for learning Chinese - the flashcards built in Pleco, but no matter how often I try to use it, I never last longer than 5-10 days, I just get bored by it. Also, no matter how I try to adjust the algo, I have the feeling that I am constantly over- or underwhelmed, no flow for me.

In the meanwhile I love learning, no matter if flashy (e.g. Duolingo) or traditional (from books) or something in between (a class), but I just never got the hang of SRS, though so many people recommend it.

New comment by siddbudd in "Please, don't force me to log in"

siddbudd — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:55:12 +0000

On one hand I totally agree with hamatti, on the other hand: I just have a couple email addresses for this very purpose. These services can send me as much spam as they wish, I will never get to see it. All they get from me is a fake name and a fake email address.

New comment by siddbudd in "Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software"

siddbudd — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:24:30 +0000

1. I launched on Mac, it immediately put itself in the "Open at Login" items, almost deleted right away. I know that making this default is getting popular, I still always feel like uninstalling when that happens. Turn it off by default or at least ASK, don't make the assumption that users want this.

2. I am trying to install "JS Paint", it says "Installing" and the wheel has been turning for a minute, I have no idea what the progress is, what the download speed is, anything. Is this intended? I also cannot cancel the installation once running.

3. "JS Paint" installed eventually, I cannot launch it, nothing happens when I click "Open", other than the "Open" button animating on mouseover. Restarted EXT, still cannot open it.

New comment by siddbudd in "Dynamic programming is not black magic"

siddbudd — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:05:25 +0000

https://archive.vn/dynNQ

(qsantos does not load for me)

New comment by siddbudd in "Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal"

siddbudd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:44:36 +0000

Disagree, especially in case of open source apps (which several of these are). I found one which I forked because of the language it is in.

New comment by siddbudd in "Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal"

siddbudd — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:43:19 +0000

done. thanks! :)

New comment by siddbudd in "Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal"

siddbudd — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:33:21 +0000

to whoever took your advice: please also add those descriptions to the by-category views (e.g. all macOS terminal tools)

New comment by siddbudd in "Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal"

siddbudd — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:31:42 +0000

actually a thing, I use it whenever a website that I am most likely never going to visit again forces me to enter an email address, then I generate a temporary email address just to receive their email, whether it's a confirmation code, download link or whatever.